another candidate for deprecation (was: Why shouldinput(prompt="hello:") fail?)

[Aahz]

In article <3FC388F2.8FB1B8D2 at engcorp.com>,
Peter Hansen  <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
>Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> 
>> Even better, deprecate input() and rename raw_input() to input()...
>
>If you mean do those two things at the same time, you've just
>deprecated the use of "input" and then provided only a routine named
>"input"...
>
>And if you mean to separate them with one release to give time for the
>deprecation notice to spread around, you'll just confuse people when
>you then add "input" back in, but with different functionality.
>
>(I agree with the idea of reusing the name input() for the One True
>Input Routine, but not with deprecating anything as it will just
>confuse the issue.)

Yeah,  what would make more sense would be to rename input() to
eval_input() and rename raw_input() to input(), and immediately
deprecate eval_input().
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